Captive women sends out SOS in pizza order

A Florida woman sent out a cry for help in an online pizza order, thus saving the lives of herself and her three children. They had been held hostage by her boyfriend – a drug addict armed with a knife.

The Avon Park Pizza Hut employees noticed the message from Cheryl
Treadway, 25, whom they recognized as a regular customer, and
didn’t hesitate to call the sheriff’s office.

“We’ve never seen that before,” Pizza Hut manager Candy
Hamilton told AP. “I’ve been here 28 years and never, never
seen nothing like that come through.”

When Highlands County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene,
they were met by Treadway and her small child. Her boyfriend,
Ethan Nickerson, 26, and the other two children were inside the
house. After the woman and child had been taken to safety, the
deputies talked the armed man into coming out.

Following a day of arguing, Nickerson confiscated his
girlfriend’s phone and accompanied her to pick her kids up from
school, while threatening her with a knife. The woman eventually
managed to talk Nickerson into giving her phone back so that she
could order a pizza, according to Highlands County Sheriff's
Office
press release.

“I don’t know if I would have thought of it,” Ludden
said of the woman’s idea. “I mean it’s just something she did
so naturally. The boyfriend never knew about it until he saw us
coming around the corner.”

Nickerson faces numerous charges including aggravated assault
with a weapon without intent to kill, battery, false
imprisonment, and obstructing justice by depriving communication
to law enforcement. He remained in jail on Wednesday with no
information as to whether he had hired an attorney.

Nickerson has been arrested on several occasions since 2007 on
charges including damage to property, public intoxication,
vehicle theft and forgery, Daily Mail reported.